Best part of the whole cake is the STOP sign. If only the wreckerator had heeded the warning and learned to self edit before plopping two thirds of those items on the cake, or writing the inscription before calling the client and resolving the question mark issue.

The lettering on the cake is actually pretty nice, but the rest of the decorations are just too much. At least they mostly go together, although I'm not sure what a dinosaur nest has to do with road construction.

What are cashews doing on a cake, and what are they supposed to represent?

What is the 'oasis' made of (please tell me it's not real dirt) and how the wreck did the crew manage to pave -- and stripe -- *under* it? Speaking of pavement, please tell me that is also flotsam -- it looks a tad too real to be safely edible.

What does the flag represent? It's not white, so it's probably not surrender. It has some kind of symbol on it and text underneath, but zooming to the resolution limit offers no clues.

Why wasn't anyone sure who retired or if they retired? Shouldn't that be the first issue resolved when ordering a retirement cake?

Nice attempt at perspective with the different-size construction vehicles, though. At least different-scale flotsam pieces aren't randomly grouped, as they have been on other wrecks.

This is the first 'construction' cake I've seen on this site that actually looks all right. If the little traffic cones and such are edible, then even more points.

But I do wonder...is Mike a workaholic and they're just not sure he's going to retire...or has he been in the basement so long that they're not sure of his name anymore a la 'Red Stapler' guy from Office Space?

Makes me think of my uncle Carmon's retirement - he was County Road Supervisor (actually, the whole dept., all by himself) for something like 50 years, and all the equipment migrated to his farm/barn, because it was easier. At his retirement party, the bosses asked, "Ummm, you ARE returning all the equipment to the county garage, right?" He replied they were welcome to send guys to get the gear, but he wasn't going to hand-deliver it for 'em, 'cause the walk back would be too tiring at his age (about 72, I think). Eventually, they did collect the grader, the dozer, the trucks, the plows, the schoolbus, and the rest - took weeks!

Maybe he's TRYING to retire and he's finally going to? There are a lot of 'retired' guys where I work. They are retired, but they get called back in because the good engineers are all busy and the incompetent engineers are useless, so they bring in the retired folks to get the job done right. One guy is on his 4th 'retirement' I think.... Good luck to Mike!

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